Tyler Jones
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Actually, we never achieved the speeds that are referenced in Bob’s article. I’m confident it can be done, but we just stopped trying to increase the speed because our company had to lay-off a lot of our staff, thus rendering our need for speed less of a priority. I will say, however, that it should be giving us all the promised speed but just isn’t for some reason. We’ve got jumbo packets turned on, the link aggregation setup correctly, all the hardware is what its supposed to be, etc… Again, I’m confident it can be done, but it would most likely require a lot of time to be spent on the phone with Netgear.
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Hey Bob! Thanks for responding! If I had been the one purchasing the equipment, I definitely would have gone with only suggested hardware. However, I just work here, so I have to try and make due with what I’m given. So, being in the situation I’m in, can you tell me a few things about how you configure the setup you’re familiar with? My specific questions are:
1. With the Small Tree switch, do Jumbo Frames have to enabled on every single port on the switch? Or just the ports connected to the client machines and the aggregated ports don’t need it?
2. Same thing with the ports on the bond0 aggregate port on the host computer (which we have successfully setup). Do each of the ports need to have jumbo frames enabled? Or just the big aggregate port.
3. I don’t know how to test the speed of the transfer rate of the raid drive from inside the host computer itself. Could it be possible that the transfer rate of this drive is the bottleneck I’m experiencing?Like I’ve said everything “works”, I’m just not getting the 70MB/sec speed we’re wanting… Thanks in advance for any help you can give. AND GOD BLESS YOU BOB ZELIN! GOD BLESS YOU!
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Hey Bob… If you’re still reading this, I have everything setup now, but I’m only getting about 23 MB/sec transfer, instead of 70. Our setup is like this:
We’ve got a Windows XP machine acting as the shared storage. It has 2 raid boxes each with 4 1TB drives in them. The two boxes are all configured together as one big 7TB drive in a raid 5 configuration. We have an intel 4 port gigabit card and the ports are teamed together acting as 1 4GB/sec port. This teamed port is connected to a netgear 24 port managed gigabit switch with the link aggregation setup on the 4 ports. My osX machine is connected directly to the netgear switch with a cat 5e cable and I’ve got jumbo packets (9000) turned on and a static IP address. Also, I’ve made sure jumbo packet support is on in both the switch and the Windows XP machine. What am I leaving out? Why am I not getting the speeds I’m supposed to be getting?
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You could contact me here at the office. We’re in Dallas. The number is (972) 709-9400 and you just ask for me (tyler) whenever the phone is answered.
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Okay, I’d like to post here to anyone who has read this thread that Tiger has alleviated any concerns or fears I had about them and this whole project. They did take a while to get in touch with me (about 2 days), but when they did, they showed the same thing everyone keeps saying about them, amazing customer service. I don’t think they’d appreciate me saying exactly what Tiger did for us, but I’ll just say that if you get in contact with them, they’ll work with you, even on your budget requirements! So, we are going to be getting the software now, and I’ll let everyone know how our setup turns out. We’re 100% following everything described in Bob’s article and we’ve never done this before, AND we’re a small studio without a lot of big budgets, so we’re exactly the type of outfit Bob is targeting in his article.
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Hey Bob!
Thanks so much for responding. Just to be clear, I’m also talking about the MetaLan software, not metasan. I can’t get in touch with anyone at Tiger, so I’ve only been able to price the software from the sites I can find that sell it. One such site is here: https://www.nlegear.com/store/product.php?productid=1272&cat=284&page=1
If you’re able to go to that link, you can see that they have metalan client priced as $395. Does Tiger sell their software directly? Also, in no way am I meaning to come across as bitter or ungrateful about the article, I really think you’ve provided an amazing resource with this article and our studio definitely got really excited after reading it. We were just very disappointed when we realized that the software involved was going to cost more than the hardware. I guess our real problem would be addressed if someone wrote a step-by-step guide of how to go from stuggling start-up to multi-million dollar operation!